Thursday, 27 November 2014

After Germany was defeated in 1945, the Allied Forces which were made up of Britain, America, France and Russia occupied Germany . Those areas under the British and the US issued certain postal stamps entitled " Deutsche Post " . Stamps of Germany under French Zone ( See 22 July 2014 ).

Thursday, 20 November 2014

Following the annexation of Austria in 1938, Nazi Germany informally named itself as " GrossDeutsches Reich " or Greater German Reich . This name was made the official state name only during the last two years ( 1944 - 1945 ) of Nazi rule under Adolf Hitler though the change was never proclaimed. After World War II , the denotation Deutsches Reich quickly fell into disuse in Allied-Occupied Germany.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

German Reich postage stamps started with Deutsches Reich-Post postal stamps whose values were in Goschen or Kreuzer from 1871 until 1874. This was then followed by Reichpost postage stamps from 1875 until 1915 a year after World War I erupted. Deutsches Reich postage stamps began in 1916 and lasted until two years before the end of World War II that was in 1943.

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of Upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. This region is actually within the Republic of France. Alsace and Lorraine was occupied by Germany in 1940 during World War II. Although Germany never really annexed Alsace, it was incorporated into the Greater German Reich. During that time, Alsace was merged into the state of Baden while Lorraine with Saarland.

Thursday, 13 November 2014

The surprise German invasion of Soviet Ukraine began on June 22, 1941. The Soviet which administered Ukraine at that time implemented a scorched-earth policy by destroying crops, buildings, mines and transported their populace to save zones in order to stop Germany from using these assets for military gain. Anyway by November 1941, virtually all of Ukraine was under the Nazi control.

Nazi Germany main concerns in establishing control over the Danube Basin including its river were economic in nature. To gain control of the river, the Nazi annexed Austria, invaded Yugloslavia and the Soviet Union where the river flowed and made treaties with the Kingdom of Romania and Hungary ( 1938 - 1940 ).

" The Danube is the waterway which leads into the very heart of the continent, and for this reason, in a Europe united by us, it will have to be regarded as a German river and must be controlled by Germany. "
ADOLF HITLER 29 JUNE 1942

Bohemia and Moravia which was an ethnic Czech State formed from the central parts of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia, in what is today the Czech Republic. On March 15, 1939, Adolph Hitler proclaimed Bohemia and Moravia as German Protectorate.

Monday, 10 November 2014

On the 4th. August 1914, German troops invaded Belgium when the country refused to let German armies a free passage to capture Paris. Belgium was then ruled by the German through a puppet regime on 20nd. August 1914 which governed 95 % of the country while the rest remained under Belgium's control.

Sunday, 9 November 2014

Posen was a province of Prussia from 1848 and became part of the German Empire from 1871 until 1918. It is probably fair to state that the City of Posen has a fairly complicated history. It was until the end of World War I as part of Prussia , then Germany as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1918. After that the city became part of Poland and was renamed as Poznan. Then again became part of Germany when the former invaded Poland in 1939 and finally with the redrawing of the borders between Germany and Poland at the end of World Wat II, it became part of Poland once more.

The hyperinflation occurred in the Weimar Republic for a period of three years between June 1921 until January 1924. During this period the German Marks were devalued so badly against the US Dollar as a result of financing the World War I which led the government to adopt certain fiscal policies to recover from the impact. This also involved the usage of German stamps.

Danzig is located on the Baltic Sea and has a long history of industry and shipbuilding. After the defeat of Napolean in 1815, Danzig became a part of the Kingdom of Prussia and later a part of German Empire when it was created in 1871. Prior to the creation of a Free State, stamps of the German Empire were used.

Saturday, 8 November 2014

Upper Silesia is the southeastern part of the region of Silesia. In the 9th. century, Upper Silesia had been part of the Greater Moravia. Then it came under the Dutchy of Bohemia, and the Piast Kingdom of Poland ( 990 - 1336 ), the Holy Empire ( 1336 - 1526 ), the Habsburg Monarch ( 1526 - 1742 ), the Kingdom of Prussia ( 1742 - 1871 ), and then the German Empire ( 1871 ). After World War I, many thousands square miles of the territory were returned back to the state of Poland which had disappeared as a result of the Third Partition of Poland in 1795. Shown here are some of the stamps used during German occupation of the region.
At the end of WWI, a plebiscite was called upon the Schleswig region to determine the border between Germany and Denmark. In 1920, the plesbicite for zone I became part of Denmark while zone II and III with more German population remained with Germany